Formulaic sequences : acquisition, processing, and use / edited by Norbert Schmitt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formulaic sequences in action : an introduction / Norbert Schmitt and Ronald Carter -- Measurement of formulaic sequences / John Read and Paul Nation -- Formulaic performance in conventionalised varieties of speech / Koenraad Kuiper -- Knowledge and acquisition of formulaic sequences : a longitudinal study / Norbert Schmitt, Zoltan Dornyei, Svenja Adolphs and Valerie Durow -- Individual differences and their effects on formulaic sequence acquisition / Zoltan Dornyei, Valerie Durow and Khawla Zahran -- Social-cultural integration and the development of formulaic sequences / Svenja Adolphs and Valerie Durow -- Are corpus-derived recurrent clusters psycholinguistically valid? / Norbert Schmitt, Sarah Grandage and Svenja Adolphs -- The eyes have it : an eye-movement study into the processing of formulaic sequences / Geoffrey Underwood, Norbert Schmitt and Adam Galpin -- Exploring the processing of formulaic sequences through a self-paced reading task / Norbert Schmitt and Geoffery Underwood -- Comparing knowledge of formulaic sequences across L1, L2, L3, and L4 / Carol Spottl and Michael McCarthy -- The effect of typographic salience on the look up and comprehension of unknown formulaic sequences / Hugh Bishop -- 'Here's one I prepared earlier' : formulaic language learning on television / Alison Wray -- Facilitating the acquisition of formulaic sequences : an exploratory study in an EAP context / Martha Jones and Sandra Haywood.

"Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS."--BOOK JACKET.

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